The future of post-human chess : a preface to a new theory of tactics and strategy / Peter Baofu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baofu, Peter.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chess.

Chess--Psychological aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (465 p.)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK : Cambridge International Science Pub., 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book provides an alternative (better) way to understand the future of chess, especially in the context of strategy and tactics-while learning from different approaches in the literature but without favoring any one of them (nor integrating them, since they are not necessarily compatible with each other). Thus, this book offers a new theory to go beyond the existing approaches in the literature on chess in a new way not conceived before.

Contents:

Intro

CONTENTS

Part One: Introduction

Part Two: Strategy

Part Three: Tactics

Part Four: Conclusion

TABLES

FOREWORD

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

ABBREVIATIONS

PART ONE Introduction

CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION - THE FUN OF CHESS

A Didactic Tale of Two Chess Sensibilities

Chess and Its Variants

The Value of Each Chess Piece

The Movement of Each Chess Piece

The Algebraic Chess Notation for Recordng Moves

Different Variants of Chess in the World

Chess, and the Relationship between Strategy and Tactics

Strategy

Tactics

The Theoretical Debate

The Mental Argument

The Natural Argument

The Social Argument

The Cultural Argument

The Mediative-Variative Argument

The Mediative-Variative Theory of Chess

Theory and Meta-Theory

A Unified Theory of Everything

The Logic of Existential Dialectics

The Conception of Existential Dialectics (or Its Ontics)

The Syntax of Existential Dialectics (or Its Ontomethodologyand Ontologic)

The Semantics of Existential Dialectics (or Its Ontosemantics)

The Pragmatics of Existential Dialectics (or ItsOntopragmatics)

Sophisticated Methodological Holism

Chapter Outline

Some Clarifications

In Conversation with My Previous Books

Case Studies and Examples

Detailed Analysis versus Overall Synthesis

Two Distinctive Features of Using Quotations

The Use of Neologisms

PART TWO Strategy

CHAPTER 2. STRATEGY AND ITS INADEQUACY

The Foresight of Strategy

Strategy and the Mind

Chess Expertise, and Psychological Explanations

Chess Games, and the Development of Mental Skills

Strategy and Nature

Chess Origin, and Its Relationship with Cosmology

Strategy and Society

Computer Chess, and the Impact of Technology

Chess Games, and the Influence of Social Structure

Strategy and Culture

Chess and Morality.

Chess Development, and Its Cultural Variants

The Uncertainty of Strategy

PART THREE Tactics

CHAPTER 3. TACTICS AND ITS ARROWNESS

The Usefulness of Tactics

Tactics and the Mind

The Game-Tree Complexity of Chess, and the Mind

Chess Blindness, and the Appeal to Reason

Tactics and Nature

Chess, Symmetry, and Mathematics

Chess, Analogy, and Physics

Tactics and Society

Chess Tactics, and the Use of Computers and Online Chess

Tactics and Culture

Tactical Exercises, and the Question of Beauty

Chess Handicap, and the Tradition of Odds-Giving

The Limitation of Tactics

PART FOUR Conclusion

CHAPTER 4. CONCLUSION - THE FUTURE OF CHESS

Beyond the Science of Chess and the Art of Chess

Other Relevant Principles

1st Thesis: The Absoluteness-Relativeness Principle

2nd Thesis: The Predictability-Unpredictability Principle

3rd Thesis: The Explicability-Inexplicability Principle

4th Thesis: The Preciseness-Vagueness Principle

5th Thesis: The Simpleness-Complicatedness Principle

6th Thesis: The Openness-Hiddenness Principle

7th Thesis: The Denseness-Emptiness Principle

8th Thesis: The Slowness-Quickness Principle

9th Thesis: The Convention-Novelty Principle

10th Thesis: The Evolution-Transformation Principle

11th Thesis: The Symmetry-Asymmetry Principle

12th Thesis: The Regression-Progression Principle

13th Thesis: The Same-Difference Principle

14th Thesis: The Post-Human Variation

Towards the New Mind Games

Three Great Future Transformations of Mind Games

Path-Breaking Implications

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

Q

R

S

T

U

V

W

X

Y

Z.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-01222-7

9786613012227

1-907343-19-9

OCLC:

713687253